The Great Lakes in winter aren't the tourist draw they are in the summer months. But features like ice volcanoes, and changing ice patterns can make the lakes beautiful even in the colder months. Today, a Wisconsin state park naturalist tells us about the highlights of the Great Lakes in winter.

Wisconsin's new legislative session is set to begin in weeks, with a renewed and expanded Republican mandate in both the Senate and Assembly. Pro-life group, Wisconsin Right to Life, is hoping the legislature will ban abortions in the state after 20 weeks.

Since Governor Walker took office, one of his mantras has been “Wisconsin is open for business" and last month Wisconsin’s Economic Development Corporation launched a new $1.6 million ad campaign to lure businesses to the state. But what does it actually take to get a business to cross state lines, and how common is it? We ask a Wisconsin-based applied economist.

More than 500 University of Wisconsin-Madison students marched into the undergraduate library on Sunday night and held a silent "die-in" to raise awareness about the recent incidents around the country of police officers shooting young black men.

Protests continued in Milwaukee during the weekend as demonstrators gained more support from longtime leaders of the African-American community in the effort to get charges filed against a police officer pertaining to the shooting death of Dontre Hamilton.

Bills pending in Congress would provide $80 million to fight heroin and prescription painkiller addiction, but a district attorney from western Wisconsin says much more is needed to address the problem in rural counties like his.

The number of gun-related killings in Wisconsin for the year currently stands at 106 killings after two fatal shootings in Milwaukee and another in Racine this week. Meanwhile, Milwaukee's police chief said his city is inundated with illegal guns. Police say Tracolli Surveyor, a 17-year-old African-American boy, was shot to...